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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.

Filed away here to collect dust and cobwwwebs in perpetuity, links may break, facts may change and data may corrupt.

On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.

Goodbye To '05. Roll On '06

With Christmas over I can safely say that I cannot tell whether I feel any better for it, merely that there is now more of me to feel.

After the festive period, the final days of 2005 saw us taking a trip to the Albery Theatre to see Patrick Stewart's performance of a Christmas Carol after a meal at Browns. Whilst I cannot recommend the show highly enough, it was unfortunately on a limited run which now over, so sadly it may be some time before you get a chance to see it.

Patrick Stewart, for want of a better phrase, is pretty damn awesome. His delivery, from the easily identifiable 40 odd characters, his narration and his dramatic stage presence make it enthralling. As the show progresses, even with only Stewart and one of each a desk, table lectern a stool and a chair against a plain black backdrop, it is so easy to become wrapped up in the story, as though you were there, literally folded into the pages of the original story, immersed in the feeling and emotion of a story that is as pertinent today as it was when it was written.

If Dicken's were alive today he would surely approve.

Browns Restaurant adjacent to the Albery